Sanitary folding bed.



T. 0. ARMFIELD. SANITARY FOLDING BED. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 15. 1916.

Patented Mar. 18, 1919.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIUE.

TILLMAN O. ARMFIELD, OF ELWOOD, INDIANA.

SANITARY FOLDING BED.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, TILLMAN O. ARMFIELD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Elwood, in the county of Madison and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and crowded apartments.

The object also is to provide a well-balanced structure for easy opening and closing, and a further object is to provide a canopy-frame and hood to cover the bed in open or closed positions and for the support of inclosing curtains to keep off flies and mosquitos while the bed is occupied and to form a protection to the bed and bed clothes when raised, and also to form a clothes press for other articles if desired.

I accomplish the above, and other objects which will be hereinafter disclosed, by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of my invention in open position for use as a bed, the mattress, bed clothing and canopy cover and curtains being removed to show the supports, and Fig. 2 is an end view of same in folded position.

Like characters of reference indicate like parts in the several views of the drawing.

A suitable base 3 of any desired shape, is mounted on casters 4 of ample size and preferably ball-bearing to enable the bed to be moved over the floor easily when folded. A pair of vertical posts 5 are supported by the base and are connected at their upper ends by a cross-bar 6. Also supported by the two posts, near their lower ends, is a cross-bar 7 which supports the head of the bed-supporting frame 8. The latter is formed out of angle or channel iron with the side rails turned up at their ends as shown to elevate the cross-rails at the ends for more convenient attachment of a springbottom 9, of any usual and suitable construction. A heavy metal head-plate 10, at right Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed June 15, 1916. Serial No. 103,839.

angleswith the side-rails of the bed, is permanently connected with the latter by curved metal bars 11, through extensions of which the cross-bar 7, passes and the bed-frame 8 is thereby hinged to the bar 7 The headplate 10 is connected with the cross-rail at the head. of the bed-frame by wire loops 12.

The head-board 13, of the bed, is formed out of metal tubing filled with lead or other heavy material to give it weight. It is pivotally connected with the plate 10. and with the latter should counterbalance those parts of the folding structure which are on the opposite side-of the hinge-bar 7. The headboard 13, is maintained in substantial parallelism with the vertical posts 5, by the bars 14, which hingedly connect them together in the manner shown.

The outer end of the bed-frame when opened is supported bylegs 15, hinged at their inner ends to the side-rails of the frame 8, and connected by a rod 16, to which another rod 17, is hinged. The inner end of the rod 17 is pivotally attached to a crankarm 18, rigidly attached to'the cross-bar 7, whereby the legs 15 are held in operative position and are automatically opened and closed.

A foot-board 19, is hinged to the opposite end of the bed-supporting frame from the head-board 13. It is off-set rearwardly of the frame 8, and of its hinges, to lengthen the bed and also to form lower elbows to bear upon bracket-extensions 20, from the frame 8, for its own support in open operative position. A clamp bar 21, hinged to the foot-board, folds down against the bed to hold the bed clothes in place.

A hood-frame 22 is supported by the posts 5 above the head-board 13. It is covered with any desired material (not shown) and from it curtains (not shown) are hung as a screen. The projection from the posts is ample to provide space (see Fig. 2) in which clothes may be hung, as from a horizontal cross-rod 23. A rectangular canopy-frame 24 is hinged to the tops of and in frontof the posts 5. This is covered with the same material as used on the hood-frame 22. and it has side rods 25 from which inclosing curtains to exclude flies and mosquitos, are hung. When not in use, these curtains are hung on rods 26 provided at the top of the posts 5 on frame 22.

The canopy-frame folds down against the front of the folded bed, as shown in Fig. 2, but is raised to a horizontal position as shown in Fig. 1, when in use, where it is maintained by springs 27 wrapped around the cross-bar 6, and having extended ends which are bent into engagement with hood frame 24, and under hood-frame 22 to keep the springs from rotating on bar 6. The springs 27 may be strong enough to automatically raise the hood-frame to its horizontal position when the frame is released, under which condition it will be locked in folded position by any suitable means, as by hooking the outer cross-member of the ho\ :l-frame under the crank-arm 18.

\Vhile I have described my invention with more or less minuteness as regards details of construction and arrangement, and as being embodied in certain precise forms, I do not desire to be limited thereto unduly or any more'than is pointed out in the claims. On the contrary, I contemplate all proper changes in form, construction, material, dimensions and arrangement, the omission of immaterial elements, and the substitution of equivalents, as circumstances may suggest or as necessity may render expedient.

I claim- 1. In a folding posts, a cross-bar connecting'them near their lower ends, said bar having a crank-arm, a bed-frame pivoted to said cross-bar and foldable toward the posts, a canopy-frame my hand bed,a pair of vertical pivoted to the tops of the posts and foldable downwardly toward the latter, legs pivoted to the bed-frame having a cross-bar remote from the PiUtS, and a connecting rod from the cross-bar to the crank-arm, said crankarm-When said parts are folded engaging the canopy-frame to lock said parts in their folded relation to each other.

2. In a folding bed, a pair of vertical posts, a cross-bar connecting them near their lower ends, said bar having a crank-arm, a bed-frame pivoted to said cross-bar and foldable toward the posts, a canopy-frame pivoted to the tops of the posts and foldable downwardly toward the latter, legs pivoted to the bed-frame having a cross-bar remote from the pivots, a connecting rod from the cross-bar to the crank-arm said crank-arm when said parts are folded engaging the canopy-frame to lock said parts in their folded relation to each other, and spring means to raise the canopy-frame out of the path of the lowering bed-bottom when the canopy-frame is released from the crankarm.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set and seal at Indianapolis, Indiana, this 31st day of May, A. D. one thousand nine hundred and sixteen.

TIL'LMAN 0. ARMFIELD. [1,. s]

\Vitnesses:

' J. A. MINTURN,

F. WOERNER. 

